Wash ing-machine



Pat'ented April 6,1880.

Washing-Maohine.

L. CHURGHMAN.

35 |NVNTOR ATTORNEY NITE STATES mort ATENT WASHlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,280, dated April 6, 1880.

Application filet] Jannary 6, 1880.

T0 all whom vit may concem Beitknown that I, LEISTER CHURCHMAN, of Bryan, in the county of YVilliams and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in \Vashing-Machines and I do hcreby declare that the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and opcration of the same; reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speoification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical central section of my improved washing-machine, and Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

This invention bas relation to horizontallyrotating washing-machines.

The nature of the invention consists in a washingmachine composed of a lower rubber having a base-bloc]: and an upper rubber having a cap-block, and both rubbers provided With tan gen tial main rubbingspokes and haltspokes forming angles With said main spokes, so as to leave a series of spaces between the spokes extending from the cap and base blocks to the peripheryof the rubbing-wheels, whereby the clothing enters the said spaces and is submitted to a wringing action, the upperrubbingwheel being mounted upon a suitable bearin g and rotated tbereon, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates the lower or stationary rubber, having a circular base-block, B, which may be secured to the bottom of a tub by bolts. In the center of this base-block a mortise, a, is made to receive the square tenon I) of the upright stem or central post, 0, the body of which is enlarged, as shown, in order to provide sufficient bearing for the movable rubber to prevent wabblin g and to obviate the tendenoy of the clothes to wind around and become fastened to the post. This post or stem is shouldered at 0, and from this portion extends upward the handle-pivot D, Which forme the upper portion of said post.

E designates the main rubbing-spokes,wbich are arranged around the base of thepost so that their inner ends are tangential thereto and angular, as indicated at d, the succession of angular ends closing solidly about the post on the they are attached, the margin otthc base-block B being about midway from the post to the rim, so that beyond this margin the water can pass freely through the rubber.

Alternating with the main spokes are the halflspokes G, which are joined to the main spokes at about their middle portion, and are connected to the marginal portion of the base block and to the rim, said halfspokes thus forming acute angles With the main spokes, and having still greater slope to the rear than the latter, as shown in the drawings. The rubbing-edges of these spokes are raised a little above the edge of the rim and are transversely rounded, so as to avoid abrading the clothes.

H represents the upper rubber, which is, like the lower rubber, in general form circular, and is provided with acap-block, K, and with standards L, to support the horizontal handle N, which is perforated at 6 for the passage of the pivot-extension D of the post of the lower rubber, the body of. said post passing through a circular opening or bearing, I, in the center of the movable rubber. This rubber is, therefore, designed to have a vertical sliding movcment on the post as well as horizontal motion of rotation around it. The movable rubber is provided With tangential main rubbing-spokes and half-spokes, arranged in a similar manner to those of the lower rubber, but trending in the reverse direction.

The cap-bloc]; K is about equal in diamcter to the lower bed-block, cxtending about half way from the post-bearing to the rim of the upper rubber, so that the water will pass freely through the rubber around its outer portion.

It Will be observed that the body of the post is longer than the height of the movable rubber, which is therefore, when in its lowest p0- Sition, suspended on the shoulder 0 of the post, and its rubbing-surface somewhat raised above that of the lower rubber, so that these surfaces cannot come into harsh contact With thin goods or operate roughly whcn but two or three pieces are being washed.

This machine is simple in construction and effective in action. Being made mainly of rnbber is rotatcd forward, or with the onter ends of the spokes following their inner ends, it tends to spread the clothes in the tub, and the ehief motion is designed to be in this direction, as it prodnces amore nniform rubbing action on the n1ass and is more gentle. When the upper rubber is tnrned in the reverse direction it tends to gather the clothes toward the center, in which operation they are acted upon by the acnte angles z between the halfspokes and main spokes, which effect a squeezng of the goods, which is regarded as important in secnring the discharge of particles of soil.

The base and cap blocks K B being of less diameter than the rnbbers A H, the clothes are permitted to pass throngh the spaces formed by the spokes and half-spokes, so that the clothing is pressed between them bythe action of said rnbbcrs and snbmitted t0 a wringing action.

Having described this invention, what I daim, and desire to secnre by Letters Patent, 1s

The washing-machine consistingof thelower rubber, A, having base-bloc]; B, and the upper rnbber, H, having a capblock, K, and both rnbbers provided with tangential main rnbbing-spokes and halfspokes forming angles wth Said main spokes, so as to leave a series of spaces between the spokes extending from the cap and base blocks K B to the periphery of the rabbing-WhlS, whereby the clothing enters the said spaces and is snbmitted to a wringing action, the upper rubbingwheel being mounted npon a suitable bearing and rotated thereon, as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have herennto snbscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

LEISTER CHUROHMAN. \Vitnesscsz T. O. XVILL1AMS, J. T. MATTOCKS. 

